Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-08-31
Reduced to a Science.
The Great American Correspon.
dent Eclipses all Previous
Records Of Re-hashing,
Concerning Base Ball he Per-
forms his Part in the Usual
Plaigiaristic Style.
THE GREAT COMPILER"

THE GREAT COMPILER"
Lieutenant ParteIlo Enters a new Field in
the World of Letters.
II il not often toat one meets, out.
side of the acknowledged Hteruti Of
the country, with 80 accomplished q
romancer as Lieut.. J. NJ. T. Particle,
who at present wears the uniform Of
Uncle Sam and does perfunctory mill.
tary duties at Fort Keogh. II is but Q
few years since Joe started on his
career as o newspaper correspondent,
and yet In that short time he has
made his name household word with
the reading public and made vigor-
ous bid for the title of "Great Ameri-
:an Correspondent" 30 long enjoyed
by Gen. Bris5in, whose career in the
world of letters. by the way. was the
incentive which prompted Joe" to
adopt this calling. While both are
fluent and frequent contributors to the
press, there is still radical difference
in the contributions. Gen. Brisbin is
g man Of mature age, large experience,
quick perceptions and a happy faculty
of expression, enabling him to throw
himself into whatever topic he may
be handling. whether his better judg-
ment approves or not and resulting al
ways In q readable letter, filled with
ideas that have originated with him;
moreover the General 10 always loyal
to the spot where his duty for the
nonce has placed him and wherever
1t may be, on Montana's range, Ida
hos front belt, Nebraska's granery or
Wyoming's irrigated lands, you find
him singing the praise of the locality
In 30 stentorian q voice as to drown
the recollection of what he may have
said before. that might not be consis.
tent with his present utterances.
With him the broad domain OF Uncle
Sam 10 q paradise and his present 10
cality wherever 10 may be the partio.
lar Eden. But our present intention
is not 30 much to discuss Gen. Bris.
bin as to call attention to the peculiar
talents of his imitator, "Joe Psrtello."
With equally fluent zen, but vastly
inferior brain power he assumes the
task Of general correspondent for all
the great eastern papers, bis
range of topics being as diverse as the
needs of the hour, and his fund Of
information a scrap book compiled
from the various papers that come
within his reach, none Of which are
too humble or obscure for him to clip
news item from, which In due time
he appropriates as an incident coming
under his personal experience, and
which is ingeniously woven into one
of his romances. The people Of this
locality are familiar with his meteoro-
logical observations Of last winter
wherein, in correspondence to eastern
papers, he subjected the whole Of
eastern Montana to the terrors Of q
snow storm In which The snow.fakes
attained the size of milk pans and fell
without cessation for twenty-four
hours. Having worked this field dur.
ing its proper season to the fullest ex-
tent and done more injury TO the coun.
try than he could counteract should
he live to be q thousand years old, he
next takes up the topic dear to the
hearts of oil disciples OF rod and gun,
and with the aid of the Encyclopedias
Brittaincs, and some text books on
natural history, he finishes up such
hu nting and fishing incidents as he
finds in western papers into vivid ex-
periences presumably personal. But
while this extensive field is yielding
rich returns for his patient deiving
among books and papers, he finds
another that he enters boldly, un-
mindful of the proverb that "hools
rush in where angels fear to tread"
At this season the whole country 10
alive with Interest In the great
national game. and any article
relating TO base ball Is
read with svidity by Its army
OF admirers. Noting this the great
compiler assumes the duty OF ac-
quainting the reading public with
facts concerning the origin OF the
game, and to this end contributes two
columns OF rehash to the Pioneer Press
Of st, Paul, and the Lord knows how
many other papers In the country.
Although concerning only the tradi'
ditions Of the game It is written with
q free use OF the personal pronoun"I" T"
and In q style that to the uninitiated
clearly brands II rs personal reminis.
cence. Take for instance this excerpt:
uIf INV memory serves me right, the